US | Further delay as Menendez brothers seek freedom after decades in prison
Brothers had hoped resentencing hearing would pave way for immediate release – but judge orders pause until May
This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump
How an expert in dictatorships helped push Harvard to challenge Trump
Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times)
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UK | Thousands protest gender court ruling in outcry against ‘betrayal’ of trans community
Demonstrators take to streets across UK amid fears of ‘massive’ consequences for trans people
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Putin announces an Easter truce in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Saturday.
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More than 400 anti-Trump rallies planned in another wave of US protests
Organizers have called for 11 million people across country to participate this weekend in effort to ‘protect democracy’
The US will witness its second wave of protests in a fortnight on Saturday as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.
More than 400 rallies are anticipated across the nation loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states, one movement.
It is the fourth protest event to be staged by the group since Trump was inaugurated on 20 January. Previous events included a “No Kings Day” on President’s Day, 17 February, a theme adopted before Trump referred to himself as a king in a social media post days later.
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So there's no coverage, and yet MILLIONS of people show up at hundreds of protests around the country? Somehow they heard about it.
This sounds like a YOU problem. Perhaps you should be a little more proactive and find the information you need, rather than waiting for the corporate mainstream media to spoon feed it to you. Shallow thinking like that is what got us here in the first place.
The most important thing is the "11 million."
Studies have shown that as little as 3.5% of the population can cause a "Tipping Point," and create a trend. America has a population of 335 million people, so 3.5% is just bit over 11 million. They are trying to reach a tipping point with just the protesters alone. For every protester, there are many more at home, posting on social media, talking to their family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc.
Ukraine trusted the West. Now everyone wants nukes.
In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Russia invaded anyway. Now, more nations ask: Why disarm if those promises mean nothing?
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Ukraine trusted the West. Now everyone wants nukes. - Euromaidan Press
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Russia invaded anyway. Now, nations ask: Why disarm if no one keeps their word?Vira Kravchuk (Euromaidan Press)
Top admiral says China is outbuilding the US on warships at a shocking rate
China's naval buildup is overshadowing the US as Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushes the military toward big modernization and combat readiness goals.
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Mexican President Organizes Song Contest To Counter Popular Genre Glorifying Cartels
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a song contest to counter narcocorridos, the genre glorifying cartels
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Japan to provide Ukraine with $ 3 bn from Russian assets
Japan has become the latest G7 country to extend financial support to Ukraine using the ERA mechanism that utilizes profits from immobilized Russian assets.
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Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland
A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”
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Black Sea Oil Spill Renders Russian Resorts Unfit for Summer Vacation, Top Health Official Warns
More than 150 beaches along Russia’s southern Black Sea coast remain unsuitable for summer vacations due to ongoing contamination from a recent oil spill, the head of Russia’s consumer safety watchdog said Friday.
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When searching for relevant accounts, I often come across users on Twitter/X with a birdsite mastodon bridge such as @firefox@birdsite.monster, which seems to be the most followed Firefox account on mastodon.
However, this account has no visible posts, and when I follow it I get a “Pending”.
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China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech
PoX is a new class of ultra‑fast, ultra‑green memories that meet the swelling appetite of large‑language‑model accelerators.
Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias
Trump DOJ letter to science journal raises free speech concerns | STAT
Scientific journals questioned about alleged bias. Legal experts say U.S. Attorney Ed Martin exceeded his authority with "ham-handed" intimidation tactic.Anil Oza (STAT)
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Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’
Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is poised to raise gobs of money and potentially overthrow the old guard of the Democratic Party.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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She's young, she could decide to run for Chuck's Senate seat in 2028. She would be just as compelling a Presidential candidate in 2032 or 2036....
.... But if a fair election is held in 2028, it is essential that Democtats field the best possible candidate, not just the next one up. (Hi, Gavin!) If AOC thinks that's her, then I will happily support that. If she supports someone else (Booker, Walz, etc), I will also be listening. But if we fuck this one up, and Vance or Eric Trump or Sean Hannity get elected, that might be game over for Democracy here. We may not get another chance.
As a NY State resident, I am eagerly looking forward to voting for AOC in some capacity in 2028, whether it's for Senator, VP, or President. I'll let her decide where she thinks she can create the most change.
I'd be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
Warren for sec of treasury. Walz for HUD or even better, cabinet level position in charge of figuring out the young man problem. He's representative of the role model a lot of young men are missing imho.
I don't wanna see another dem pres candidate that's older than me (mid 50s) EVER AGAIN. The problems my kids are facing aren't going to be fixed by old people, and while I'm not quite there yet, I'm fucking close enough.
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There is zero reason to throw a moderate on there.
Run a fair primary and number 2 gets first right if refusal for vice.
If they don't want it, let the candidate pick their running mate.
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I mean VP in recent history is there to balance the ticket. If the presidential candidate is weak in one area, they pick a VP strong in that area. Sometimes the VP is just to lock in a competitive state.
The winner picks the VP. If number 2 works well, great, but the winner picks.
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They just need a candidate that can get 100m votes. Like it should not be hard in the age of stolen data to pick a person who can get 100m people off the couch. I don’t care what the Democrats like at this point. If we can’t figure out a candidate and policy that will invigorate 100,000,000 people we don’t even deserve to be running.
can you get 1/3 of the country to vote against fascism? challenge: impossible
We know the DNC leadership is interested more in keeping control of their half of the duopoly than winning elections.
They will never allow a leftist to run.
in charge of figuring out the young man problem
Both a great idea and one that will absolutely piss of the conservatives that are happy to see their young men embrace far right ideologies even if it comes with violent hatred in the process.
This was a great podcast episode that addresses the young men issue directly. Scott Galloway has been talking about it for a while.
At about 70 minutes, he states that the greatest innovation from the United States is the middle class, and he makes a good argument IMHO. He talks about how there were about seven million men that came back from World War II having proven themselves, with some confidence, and of course being in uniform doesn't hurt. They had opportunity for education, help with starting a career and affording a home, and all that made them attractive mates and led to the baby boom and the rise of the middle class. (I know it's an oversimplification, of course.)
Here's a fun conspiracy theory for you – what if somebody recognizes that sequence of events and thinks the best thing we could do would be to replicate it? If that was your goal, what would you do to make it happen, but with a twist to the far right?
I would support a cutoff for president at say 60 when starting office, that would keep us below 70 for a two-termer. That's plenty old enough.
Also the 18 year rolling term limit idea for SCOTUS.
You think that's the problem. Old people running? No, it's this lopsided old people majority that the baby boom brought. They could run, but no one would vote for them.
Until we die off and get out of the way, this isn't going to change.
I’d be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
I would fear for AOC's safety with Buttigieg as her VP. And not just because he's McKinsey. Because there are a lot of democrats that hate her and would consider Buttigieg an acceptable replacement.
I understand wishes, but let's be realistic.
Nearly half the voters went for Trump, even after everything from pussy grabbing to January 6.
If AOC god the nod, she'd have to have someone like Manchin as Veep.
I know the argument constantly rages - too left! Too centrist! and I don't know which one would be more effective.
On the other hand, the closest we've come to a real left candidate at least in my lifetime was Sanders and the thumb on the scale against him was pretty corporate blue - and the mainstream lost, so maybe we should try it the other way?
Who cares what Macarthy thinks. He’s a republican that bent the knee. He belongs in prison with the rest of the traitors.
Don’t buy into this garbage. Just another attempt at dividing people.
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Sure looks like republicans are scared of AOC.
But centrists saw a progressive woman seizing the moment and suddenly decided that women can't win.
Seriously. I don’t care WHAT he says.
He’s a fucking shill and helped flush the country down the drain. Fuck anything that bastard says.
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Cisco, a Major Contributor to Israel's Military Technology, Fired a Pro-Palestine Employee
Cisco, a Major Contributor to Israel's Military Technology, Fired a Pro-Palestine Employee
Cisco staff are outraged at the company's recent policy restricting internal debate on U.S. policy in the Middle East.Archit (Drop Site News)
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Now that sounds like it's leaning into anti-semetic Nazi bullshit. Would you say that all Jews should be killed?
And for the record I'm not in the slightest pro-israel
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Pasqua ad Altamura: arte, tradizione e spiritualità tra fede e storia
Pasqua ad Altamura: arte, tradizione e spiritualità tra fede e storia
Altamura e il patrimonio pasquale: arte, tradizione e fede Cattedrale di Altamura Nel cuore della Puglia, tra le antiche strade lastricate e...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Analysis: The cases — over a district’s opt-out policy and a religious charter school — could have ramifications for school systems nationwide.Linda K. Wertheimer (The Hechinger Report)
Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Henrietta Lacks hasn't managed it yet. Look her up. It's at least as bad as this if not more so.
"Yet" being the operative word here. There's a disease in dogs that started in some very similar circumstances (although happening in nature rather than from a science accident). One slip-up from an immunocompromised tech with just the right genetic make-up and it begins.
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I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
Good thing nobody knows for sure!
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Well, we do know for sure it'd take more than this. We don't know what it would take, but this is far beyond the minimum it could take. If that's all it is then almost every form of life on Earth would have to be assumed to be conscious.
(Sentience is actually the word we are talking about).
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It's about as close to composing as transcribing the twitches of someone with Parkinson's.
About as respectful as well, if the researcher is the person characterising this process as composing.
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I'm referring to completely involuntary movements... Characterising any involuntary, debilitating phenomenon as intentional or artistic is gross.
Characterising involuntary but normal phenomenon as intentional or artistic is maybe a little less gross, but still asinine.
I understand why you think it's offensive, that's fine.
I know what you mean; I think it would be hurtful to people with Parkinson's, but whatever, I luckily don't have Parkinson's so not much point arguing it.
Characterising involuntary but normal phenomenon as intentional or artistic is maybe a little less gross, but still asinine.
That seems like a very bizarre take. Isn't that a very common artistic device, to find creative interpretations of natural phenomena, and to imagine intention where there is none? I mean, art is subjective so maybe that's just your personal taste, but it seems like a strange thing to be offended by to me.
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Senator says Bukele staged margaritas at Abrego Garcia meeting, wanted it by pool
The New York Times reported that one of Bukele’s aides planted the tropical-looking drinks on the table to make it look like Abrego Garcia was living large. Van Hollen confirmed this on Friday. “This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what’s going on,” he said, “and it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the president will go to, because when he was asked … about this, he just went along for the ride.”
Van Hollen added that Bukele’s government wanted the meeting to take place by a pool: “They actually wanted to have the meeting [take place] by the side of the pool in the hotel,” he said. “This is a guy who’s been in CECOT. This is a guy who has been detained. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.”
Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting With Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Sen. Chris Van Hollen detailed his meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported.Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
Wait hold on, they wanted us to think it wasn't staged?
The dude was sent to a concentration camp and then sitting at a table in a decent looking area? And they had fake hand gestures exactly like North Korean photo ops and they expected us to think it WASN'T STAGED?
If the MAGATs ate it up, then I realize just how hard they reject the reality over their Truth.
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We've all seen the pictures of the concentration camp, everyone in white boxers and shirt with their heads being shoved down while they walk.
It amazes me that they think we would buy this as how they live day to day?
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When Mr. Garcia gets back to the US take his family and put them in safety in another country - Canada, Europe, so long as they're far from El Salvador or Trump. Political asylum anywhere safe, since he can be considered now a person of interest to those wanting to upkeep democracy, and a danger to those undermining it.
I'm sure there's plenty of people sympathetic to this cause and wanting Mr. Garcia to be able to freely speak without fear about what he's endured.
As soon as he's back in the US he'll have a big red bullseye on his back, guaranteed.
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He is never going to leave CECOT unless he’s in a coffin. That is literally the Warden’s mandate.
He did leave CECOT. He had been out of CECOT for one week before he met the senator.
And he can leave his current facility, too. He did for this photo shoot at a hotel.
All it takes is for Bukele to change his tune. Which he has, already once.
The pressure campaigns are working. Do not give up on this man.
Oh sorry, you are correct.
He was moved from CECOT to a different El Salvadoran hellhole, then paraded to a photo op at a hotel which Bukale later made a joke about on social media.
Exactly. Both things that a day before we were told could never happen.
The game is not over
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture.’ now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele posted on X.
What a remarkable piece of shit.
I disagree. He's clearly concerned about the blowback now.
Their messaging and staging is desperately, pathetically screaming "not a gulag! Not a gulag! He's having a nice time here!"
Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker
Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker
The US government and the media are breathing new life into this zombie idea that the Covid virus was released from a Chinese lab.FAIR
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US: Palantir expanding immigrant surveillance tools for ICE to the tune of $30m
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, has just signed an additional deal with Palantir Technologies worth $30m to track immigrants accused of violent crime, but also those who have overstayed their visas, Business Insider reported on Thursday.
Palantir's expanded and refined surveillance tools are also meant to help ICE keep an eye on those who "self-deport", which is something the Department of Homeland Security has been asking certain immigrants to do to avoid being forcibly - and sometimes very publicly - removed.
The new software, dubbed "ImmigrationOS" according to Business Insider's review of the contract, will save "time and resource expenditure" when locating and arresting immigrants, and bring together all the data needed for "end to end immigration lifecycle from identification to removal".
US: Palantir expanding immigrant surveillance tools for ICE to the tune of $30m
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, has just signed an additional deal with Palantir Technologies worth $30m to track immigrants accused of violent crime, but also those who have overstayed their visas, Business Insider rep…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now
Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now
The justices said no action should be taken to pursue the deportations of any alleged Venezuelan gang members in Texas under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)
China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech
China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech
PoX is a new class of ultra‑fast, ultra‑green memories that meet the swelling appetite of large‑language‑model accelerators.Kaif Shaikh (Interesting Engineering)
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AI AI AI AI
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Wake me up if they figure out how to make this cheap enough to put in a normal person's server.
You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.
You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.
Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.
What price point are you trying to hit?
What price point are you trying to hit?
With regards to AI?. None tbh.
With this super fast storage I have other cool ideas but I don't think I can get enough bandwidth to saturate it.
You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?
Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.
With regards to AI?. None tbh.
TBH, that might be enough. Stuff like SDXL runs on 4G cards (the trick is using ComfyUI, like 5-10s/it), smaller LLMs reportedly too (haven't tried, not interested). And the reason I'm eyeing a 9070 XT isn't AI it's finally upgrading my GPU, still would be a massive fucking boost for AI workloads.
normal person’s server.
I’m pretty sure I speak for the majority of normal people, but we don’t have servers.
Does flash, like solid state drives, have the same lifespan in terms of write? If so, it feels like this would most certainly not be useful for AI, as that use case would involve doing billions/trillions of writes in a very short span of time.
Edit: It looks like they do: enterprisestorageforum.com/har…
Manufacturers say to expect flash drives to last about 10 years based on average use. But life expectancy can be cut short by defects in the manufacturing process, the quality of the materials used, and how the drive connects to the device, leading to wide variations. Depending on the manufacturing quality, flash memory can withstand between 10,000 and a million [program/erase] cycles.
Life Expectancy of a Drive: HDD, SSD, and Flash
We store all our most valuable data on drives. How long can we expect them to last? Learn the life expectancy of HDDs, SSDs, and flash.Don Hall (Enterprise Storage Forum)
Oh I agree, but the speeds in the article are much faster than any current volatile memory. So it could theoretically be used to vastly expand memory availability for accelerators/TPUs/etc for their onboard memory.
I guess if they can replicate these speeds in volatile memory and increase the buses to handle it, then they'd be really onto something here for numerous use cases.
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By tuning the “Gaussian length” of the channel, the team achieved two‑dimensional super‑injection, which is an effectively limitless charge surge into the storage layer that bypasses the classical injection bottleneck.
But I'm not a native English speaker, so, idk
Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.
Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.
Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?
If it's not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global "the Chinese" or doing silly shit like "China scientists" everyone's grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.
Brother, have you heard of buses? Even INSIDE cpus/socs bus speeds are a limitation. Also i fucking hate how the first thing people mention now is how ai could benefit from a jump in computing power.
Edit: I havent dabbled that much in high speed stuff yet but isnt the picosecond range so fast that the capacitance of simple traces and connectors between chips influence the rising and falling edge of chips?
That's pretty much my understanding. Most of the advancements happened in memory speeds are related to the physical proximity of the memory and more efficient transmission/decoding.
GDDR7 chips for example are packed as close as physically possible to the GPU die, and have insane read speeds of 28 Gbps/pin (and a 5090 has a 512-bit bus). Most of the limitation is the connection between GPU and RAM, so speeding up the chips internally 1000x won't have a noticeable impact without also improving the memory bus.
China and Russia worked very hard to get these rich stupid people in power.
It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.
Surprisingly, the "liberal tears compilations" and "something about an email server people didn't understand wasn't actually illegal" actually worked and drowned out the warnings from our security agencies.
I don't think China will be any better of a world leader tbh.
I see humanity's future as a boot stepping on a human face forever, unless humanity globally rejects kings, oligarchs, and dictators.
Don't forget the genius DNC folk, including HRC thought a pied piper strategy of boosting the circus peanut was a good idea.
If the Russians and Chinese did anything it was just capitalizing on an unforced error by the hubris of the centrist. One again, bernie would have won, but that was more distasteful to the ruling class than fascism.
Oddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.
trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.
When empires end they do some self-destructive things. It's normal.
It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.
Compare russia to the British and consider who is the bigger villain.
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far
Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic. This is how The Times covered it.Nicholas Confessore (The New York Times)
Can we not bother deciding who was the biggest nightmare, and instead focus on finding models for the best countries.
I am so sick of the "at least the USSR had..." or "at least China does..." conversation. Can't we have a "Finland has high happiness, broad socialist protections, and a fast moving economy" kind of conversations.
The point is that foreigners influence elections all the time, all over the world.
Americans meddle all the time, but are the only one that start crying when it's done to them.
Americans have a history of the most insidious manipulations in the politics of other nations - did you see their Sec. of state try commemorate the CIA backed coup of Cuba.
About "crying" over foreign interference, you are wrong. In the last 4 years France, Canada, Germany, Romania, Sri-Lanka, Australia, all of the Baltic nations andore have a had credible complaints of attempts from foreign nations trying to use propaganda and more to influence elections.
Let's not try to convince ourselves than only the Americans are misbehaving.
Link to the actual paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-025…
The repro and verification will take time. Months or even years. Don't trust anyone who says it's definitely real or definitely bunk. Time will tell.
Subnanosecond flash memory enabled by 2D-enhanced hot-carrier injection - Nature
A two-dimensional Dirac graphene-channel flash memory based on a two-dimensional-enhanced hot-carrier-injection mechanism that supports both electron and hole injection is used to make devices with a subnanosecond program speed.Nature
I talked to like 50 people today and all of the people said they were starting manufacturing plants tomorrow and they'll be fully functional Tuesday around 3:15.
I started mine earlier and I've already done manufacturing 3 times today. It's really easy. By this time tomorrow I'll have a couple more and they'll all be winning manufacturing.
Tariffs gave me the ability to finally believe in myself. Tariffs have increased my stamina in bed, given me a full head of hair again, and since I started manufacturing plant yesterday I've dropped 50 pounds.
Yeah... At best click baity as fuck, at worst a complete scam.
Any time there is a 10x or more in a headline you are 10x or more likely to be right by calling it BS.
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Easy, instead of developing the technology themselves they just copy it and claim they developed it 10000 times faster.
It's a play on the original title.
Trump's team is preparing to abandon Ukraine - and Europe will pay the price
Trump's team is preparing to abandon Ukraine - and Europe will pay the price
The White House could quit ceasefire initiative 'within days'Radina Gigova (The i Paper)
"Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented."
Even Trump's appointees are going against him here.
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Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he’s NOT coming back.Nitter
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This is gonna bode well.
They know, that's why the oligarchs will prop another one.
I am of the opinion that Trump is a pazi should shit hits the fan. The billionaires-- the true rulers-- will be scot free if the American people decide to rise up.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.Nitter
The idea is that every sign is a symbol: Marijuana, Smile (**S***onreír), a cross which is a symbol for 1, and a skull, which in Spanish is called *cráneo, a word beginning by a c, the 3rd letter of the alphabet. All together they make “MS13”. The photoshoped letters and numbers are a legend.
I have no idea if this is things gangs do. And if it's a gang tattoo, that doesn't mean he is a member (he may just like the gang aesthetics, people do weird things), and if he is a member, that's not important, because guilty or not, he deserves a trial.
This seems unrealistically convoluted, to the level of someone who's just looking for evidence of a conspiracy. A gang symbol is a bit rubbish if you need a cryptography manual to identify it. The whole point of a gang symbol is to advertise that you belong to the gang.
You could probably find a trifecta of 3s and link him to the Illuminati if you tried hard enough.
La storia fantastica del "pollo" che poteva incanalare gli uragani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
La storia fantastica del "pollo" che poteva incanalare gli uragani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Di un po’, lupo di mare, hai mai sentito di qualcuno che sia riuscito a tornare dall’armadietto del vecchio Davy Jones? Il cumulo di ossa sogghignanti, perennemente attaccato alla sua bara, che riemerge al termine del giorno per chiamare giù gli inca…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Diseases occur naturally, new diseases occur naturally. We know the first cases were in Wuhan China. There are a number of theories on how "patient 0" became infected. (Bat to human transfer, lab grown, pig to human, other dead animal to human) But patient 0 is not even known, early COVID spread extremely fast and a source cannot be pinpointed. Knowing the exact source could help with prevention of future new diseases (shutting down wet markets or closing labs). But with the speed of the spread, death rate, and chaos it brought, it will likely never be known.
"Will someone pay." Without knowing an exact source we don't know if a human is at fault or if there was just the perfect storm of natural events. mRNA vaccines are a new technology that was fast tracked thanks to COVID. As a society we will benefit from its ability to develop new vaccines faster. Many nations/regions were forced to reevaluate their disaster relief plans because of COVID. If a future event occurs the lessons learned from COVID should help mitigate.
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard - The New York Times
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.Michael S. Schmidt (The New York Times)
ExtremeDullard
in reply to juergen • • •No: what helps Harvard stand up to Trump is that Harvard is loaded. The University of Bumfuck Nowhere will immediately cave in to Trump's authoritarian nonsense to maintain their federal funding and their tax-exempt status. Harvard can afford to do without them.
In other words, I'm glad Harvard is resisting. But this is yet another example of rich-man-can-do.
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deranger
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Is the better option that rich man do nothing?
You’re not wrong that the money helps but someone also has to do the convincing part. They both help.
ExtremeDullard
in reply to deranger • • •deranger
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •I believe those with more resources have more options to resist; this has always been the case. However, they don’t have all of the means.
I don’t think doomerism like this does anything but demoralize. It’s better than them going along with the bullshit. It’s gotta start somewhere, and it’s going to start with those who have the resources to resist.
TheDuffmaster
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in reply to juergen • • •When the far right came knocking, Harvard made Columbia look pretty cowardly and unworthy of any prestige. Columbia should lose its "ivy league" title for good.
Good for Harvard leadership.